Administrative Expertise
I have been discipline head since 1997 and have also served as Head of School (Population Health Sciences) and deputy head of school (Medicine and Population Health) at different times. I am Director of the Newcastle Institute of Public Health and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Training in Pharmaco-economics and Rational Pharmacotherapy at the University of Newcastle. I am chair of medical staff council of the Newcastle Mater Hospital and have served on multiple committees, including ethics committees of the University and health service. I have been a member of several national committees concerned with drug regulation and for 8 years chaired the economics subcommittee of the Commonwealth governments Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee

Qualifications

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, University of Glasgow - Scotland

Newby DA, Hill SR, Barker B, Drew A, Henry DA, 'Drug information for consumers: should it be disease or medication specific? Results of a community survey', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 25(6) 564-570 (2001) [C1]

Research Supervision

Past Supervision

Year

Research Title / Program / Supervisor Type

2010

A Preliminary Analysis of the Pharmaceutical Provisions in the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement on Prescription Medicines in AustraliaPublic Health, Faculty of Health and MedicinePrincipal Supervisor

2010

Assessing the Quality of Health News Stories in the Australian Media Using the Media Doctor WebsitePublic Health, Faculty of Education and ArtsCo-Supervisor

2010

Assessing the Quality of Health News Stories in the Australian Media Using the Media Doctor WebsitePublic Health, Faculty of Health and MedicineCo-Supervisor

2007

Evidence-Based Patient Decision Making: The Development of a Decision Aid on Blood TransfusionPharmacology, Faculty of Health and MedicinePrincipal Supervisor

2005

Evaluation of Aspects of the South African National Drug Policy: Hypertension, a Case StudyPharmacology, Faculty of Health and MedicineCo-Supervisor

2003

Pharmaceutical Affordability and Quality Use of MedicinesPharmacology, Faculty of Health and MedicinePrincipal Supervisor

2002

Public Participation in Health Care Decisions about Medicines Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and MedicinePrincipal Supervisor